How to split the categories into sections with titles?

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I feel someone must have done this previously but i can’t find it mentioned anywhere here. I felt we needed three sub-categories so i made that fix, but honestly its not worth it with the bugs caused to other plugins.

We don’t need the third layer anyway, we just need a way to break the categories list page up into sections so each grouping is clearly different from the others and users instantly know what it is. Obviously i’ve already colour coded them accordingly, but there is nothing to explain to users what each colour means.

I want to add a space between categories in the category list view, and put a word of text in it as a title. For example:

Projects
| category 1 - sub1
| category 2
| category 3 - sub1+2

Learning
| category 4 - sub1
| category 5

Local
| category 6 - sub1+2+3
| category 7

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You can select categories with their ids and inject your title texts before, e.g.:

body [data-category-id="1"]:before {
    content: "Projects";
}

Alternatively, you could use this new component, it comes with backend settings to add category sections:

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I used the same CSS edit on my Discourse forum, but with the latest updates adding the sidebar it’s now a bit messed up:

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How can I apply this edit only on the main outlet and not in the sidebar?
Thanks!

EDIT: This also happens in the header dropdown:

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You just need to be more specific with your style declaration. The code snippet declares styles anywhere on the body element. To change that, inspect the element you want to adjust with your browser tools and replace body with a more specific declaration, e.g:

#main-outlet .category-list {
  [data-category-id="1"]:before {
     content: "Projects";
  }
}
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